LEOMINSTER — Police are investigating a reported burglary in which a Green Street resident said $4,500 from Girl Scouts cookie sales was taken.

Robert Levine, who reported the incident, told investigators the front door of his apartment was wide open when he returned home at 2:15 p.m. Monday, according to police. Mr. Levine told police the break-in must have occurred between 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., when no one was home.

Besides $4,500 in cash from cookie sales, electronics and three cases of Girl Scout cookies were missing from the apartment, Mr. Levine told police.

Most of the cash was apparently from recent booth sales run by two troops led by Mr. Levine's wife, Joan Levine.

"We're so grateful nobody was home," said Dana Carnegie, community relations manager for Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts.

"A booth sale is what we call the activity of girls and their leaders or cookie moms/dads setting up a table in front of, say the grocery store, to sell cookies," Ms. Carnegie said.

Ms. Levine reported to the Girl Scouts organization that her Brownie troop sold $2,617 worth of cookies at booth sales and her Juniors sold $1,907 worth, Ms. Carnegie said. Also taken was $175 in startup money for the booth sales, according to Ms. Carnegie.

Anyone with information about the theft is asked to call Leominster police at (978) 534-4383.